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2024PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable96 % positive−40 % ~~14.79 €~~ 8.87 €

A Chinese-flavored side-view detective game where you investigate cases, piece together clues and deduce the truth behind a string of puzzling murders.

Strong, story-driven narrative
Puzzles and brain teasers
Dark, serious atmosphere
Distinctive, stylised art style

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The closest matches for Murders on the Yangtze River are Urban Myth Dissolution Center, The Incident at Galley House and Staffer Case: A Supernatural Mystery Adventure. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Murders on the Yangtze River special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Urban Myth Dissolution Center

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2025PCPlayStationNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified89 % positive−30 % ~~17.49 €~~ 12.24 €

Strong, story-driven narrative
Puzzles and brain teasers
Dark, serious atmosphere

An occult mystery adventure where you team up with the psychic Director of the Center to investigate cursed relics, shady rental homes and dimensional anomalies. It blends visual-novel storytelling, puzzle solving and an eerie yet slightly quirky mood.

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The Incident at Galley House

Strong, story-driven narrative

A puzzle mystery adventure about a grisly event at Galley House in 1936, where a strange device reveals echoes of the past so you can piece together the truth.

Staffer Case: A Supernatural Mystery Adventure

Distinctive, stylised art style

A detective adventure set in 1960s London where supernatural abilities are part of everyday life. You gather clues, arrange them into documents and expose contradictions to solve murder cases.

No Case Should Remain Unsolved

Strong, story-driven narrative

A retired senior inspector reopens an old case in a narrative detective adventure, uncovering lie after lie among the people around the victim. The focus is on memories, questioning and piecing the truth together.

Retro Mystery Club Vol.1: The Ise-Shima Case

Accessible and relaxed

A classic-style text-driven detective adventure in the vein of Famicom Detective Club, where you question people, gather clues and solve a crime in the Ise-Shima region. Story takes center stage, with no combat at all.

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Pure single-player experience

A narrative deduction game that blends puzzle solving with the feel of an audio drama. From the makers of Heaven's Vault and Overboard!, it focuses on listening, dialogue and piecing together clues.

The White Door

Puzzles and brain teasers

A dark point-and-click puzzle adventure from Rusty Lake: as an amnesiac patient you follow the clinic's daily routine and dive into dreams to uncover Robert Hill's past. The story is told almost wordlessly.

Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo

Strong, story-driven narrative

A horror adventure set in Showa-era Tokyo that weaves the urban legend of the Seven Mysteries of Honjo into clever curse-based puzzles and an intricate multi-protagonist story.

Daemon Masquerade

Strong, story-driven narrative

An anime-inspired supernatural detective game where you piece together evidence on a conspiracy board to reveal the identities and powers of your adversaries.

Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo

Strong, story-driven narrative

A psychological thriller loosely inspired by Hitchcock's classic, where you play through three perspectives and several timelines, solving puzzles and separating reality from deceptive memory.

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